An indispensable guide to help companies navigate the new era of ethical challenges and risks
in a volatile global landscape. Today's headlines teem with employee unrest over racial
injustice communities infuriated by corporate environmental impacts staff anxiety over
surveillance public outrage over corruption in business and discoveries of child labor in
supply chains. We've traveled far and fast from the old world of business ethics where
black-and-white concerns about bribery and fraud could be addressed via rules and processes.
Simply maximizing shareholder value while not breaking the law is no longer a tenable approach
but we've never been so confused about what it means to do the right thing-and why it's so
important. In this eye-opening essential book NYU Stern ethics professor Alison Taylor argues
that amid stakeholder demands and transparency pressures we can no longer treat ethics as
merely a legal and reputational defense mechanism. Leaders at Davos and the Business Roundtable
have called for a new corporate responsibility paradigm but organizations struggle to
implement these ideas in an atmosphere of heightened expectations and intense suspicion.
Offering vivid stories and examples from years working in anti-corruption and advising
companies on ethics Taylor brings this complex risky environment alive to provide a blueprint
for how leaders can rethink and reshape their practices. How can CEOs cut through the noise to
set robust environmental and social priorities? When should they speak out on contentious
social and political issues-and how? What does it really take to build a healthy organizational
culture? How are we to approach corporate values when society itself is so divided? Higher
Ground shows leaders how business can navigate this messy paradigm shift build trust and
achieve long-term strategic advantage in a turbulent world.
